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During cluster create process, Hortonworks Data Cloud automatically installs Ambari and sets up a cluster for you. After this deployment is complete, refer to the Ambari documentation and HDP documentation for help.

AWS Tips & Tricks

This section provides some useful tips and tricks to help you use Amazon Web Services.

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AWS Services Menu Shortcuts
Navigating between the CloudFormation and EC2, as well as other Amazon Web Services, can take
some getting used to, especially if you are switching between services often.
This video shows you a simple way to make menu shortcuts available in the top navigation so any service
is just a click away.

EC2 Instance Security Group
Security groups are used in AWS to control network traffic to EC2 instances. They are effectively
a virtual firewall. This video shows how to find and view the security group that is associated
with an EC2 instance. Refer to the Amazon EC2 Security Groups documentation
for more information about viewing and modifying security group rules for EC2 instances.

CloudFormation Stack Name for VPC
It's useful to know if a VPC is associated with a CloudFormation stack. You can easily add that information
to the VPC table. In this video, we show how to make a menu shortcut for the VPC Service. Then
we browse to the VPC Service and add the CloudFormation stack name to the columns in the VPC table.

Setting CloudFormation Rollback
In some cases, CloudFormation Create Stack fails, which causes AWS to rollback the resources
created up to that point. It is useful to keep the resources around (and not rollback) to help with
troubleshooting. This video shows how to set up Rollback on failure to No when creating
a CloudFormation stack.